Captive Audience

Mini-série télévisée
2022
TV-MA
46m

ÉVALUATION IMDb

6,8/10

2,9 k

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In 1972, 7-year-old Steven Stayner mysteriously vanished on his way home from school. Nearly a decade later, his dramatic return to his family sparked '80s-era "stranger danger" warnings, legal reforms.

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Suit la vie de Steven Stayner et de sa famille, dans une retrospective de 50 ans de la famille pour démêler l'histoire de deux frères, l'un considéré comme un méchant et l'autre comme un hér... Tout lireSuit la vie de Steven Stayner et de sa famille, dans une retrospective de 50 ans de la famille pour démêler l'histoire de deux frères, l'un considéré comme un méchant et l'autre comme un héros.Suit la vie de Steven Stayner et de sa famille, dans une retrospective de 50 ans de la famille pour démêler l'histoire de deux frères, l'un considéré comme un méchant et l'autre comme un héros.

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ÉVALUATION IMDb

6,8/10

2,9 k

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HautLes mieux cotés 1 saison 2022

• 2022

Kay Stayner

Self - Steven's Mother…

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Ashley Stayner

Self - Steven's Daughter…

• 2022

Corin Nemec

Self - Actor

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Cory Stayner

Self…

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Jody Stayner

Self - Steven's Wife

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Ted Rowlands

Self - Journalist

• 2022

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9destiny_west

Heart breaking

Captive Audience is the story of Steven Stayner who was abducted at a young age only to return to his family years later. This story was made into a two part series titled "I know my first name is Steven' though it was loosely added to.

This documentary goes over the tragedies that continue to fall the Stayner family even upon Steven's return, that included his older brother turning out to be a serial killer.

This documentary is heart breaking and captivating.

To learn what this kid went through and his own heroic act to save another child, is mind blowing.

To see how the media dogged him and his family upon his return and into the future is heart breaking.

This documentary is well worth a watch.

5stefaniemccool

Why HULU Why?!?!

Why did you do the documentary like this, have you not watched any true crime Docs before, "inviting the actors" to read the interviews and flashing from family and friends back to the actors was completely unnecessary. Just tell the story and let the interviewees speak their thoughts and stories. NOTHING else is needed!!

3mikehannus-275-687810

What was director thinking?

Instead of a straight up true crime documentary, which this story warrants, the director decided to make a mashup of news footage form 1972, interviews from 2022 and for reasons that are beyond me, extensive footage of the late 1980s made for TV mini-series. I cannot for the life of me figure how they thought the addition of the mini-series footage or act outs from the aged actors added anything to this narrative. I struggled through the first episode baffling at this choice. This is a poorly directed doc.

3mikelc2020

Pretentious Filmmaker Ruins Important Story of Hero/Survivor Steven Stayner

Such an important story of a young boy who was abducted and brutally victimized for 7 years then becomes a hero saving another child and yet the pretentious director, who directed an episode of Unsolved Mysteries, spent way too much time having actors from a 1989 TV movie based on the events read from actual interviews of family members. This totally took away from the story and was obviously added as filler to make Captive Audience into a miniseries. Here's what the miniseries completely overlooks by a long shot and fails to present: Steven Stayner was a victim turned hero and should be remembered and always honored for that.

8Vwalbridge7592

Real People

This wasn't the best true crime documentary but it gave us a look at a real family that survived hellish circumstances only to be hit one more time with a media avalanche and another tragedy. I saw the made for TV movie and I finally heard from the family that they weren't portrayed in the most accurate light but they were happy their story was told. Most people know who Steven is and what Cary did but I don't think anyone can really know what the impact of those events had on the members of the family. I see what the director asked the actors who portrayed Steven and Cary to step in and read excerpts from the interviews. It's a little off-putting at first but with the absence of those key people it keeps the viewer involved in the story instead of cutting to a still picture of the individual. I feel this could have been more involved but I asked away with a deep respect for Mrs. Staynor and her strength.

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The director later stated in an interview that despite allowing the mitigation specialist for Cary Stayner's defense statement that he found a history of abuse, mental illness, and alcoholism in the Stayner family to remain in, she chose not to address it or ask the interviewed family members about it. In reality, the series leaves out a large amount of information, including the fact that child molestation was rife in the family and the father, Delbert Stayner, was one of the perpetrators, along with an uncle, Jesse Jerrold "Jerry" Stayner, and the maternal grandfather, Robert Augustine. The uncle was murdered in 1990; the case is still unsolved. The grandfather lived near Kenneth Parnell when Steven was kidnapped in 1972.

The private investigator who was interviewed is aware, as are many other people, that despite the narrative that has been fed to the public, Cary Stayner is only guilty of one murder and was railroaded and took the fall for the actual killers (the men who were initially arrested for the crime) in the three murders for which he was sentenced to death. There was a large amount of incompetence and corruption in local law enforcement, and the trial was rigged. Kay Stayner stated in an interview after the trial that she doesn't believe Cary committed those murders either, and pointed out that without his confession, which was full of major discrepancies, the state had no case, but has never fought for her son's innocence, perhaps because she fears the family secrets coming to light again.